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Ch. 30-31 Study Guide Flashcards

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Stagflation

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A period of high inflation an high unemployment

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Richard M. Nixon

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Won 1968 election
Called voters the silent majority
Promised to restore law an order
Republican 
VP: Spiro T. Agnew and Gerald Ford 
Resigned after impeachment for Watergate Scandal
Claimed executive privilege for tapes
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OPEC

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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (middle east)

Hoped to control oil production and sales to keep oil prices high

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Energy Crisis

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Caused by an oil embargo
Marked by high fuel prices and fuel shortages
Increased stagflation
Caused US to look for new oil source

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Henry Kissinger

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Nixon’s national security advisor during his first term and his Secretary of State during Nixon’s second term
Helped shape US foreign policy and created realpolitik

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Realpolitik

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German word that means “practical policies”
Favored protecting US interest over defending political or moral ideals oversees
Kissinger’s belief that the US should be willing to cooperate with non democratic countries in certain cases

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Leonid Brezhnev

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1972 Soviet leader who talked with Nixon concerning nuclear arms race

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SALT

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Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Limited numbers and types of long-range nuclear missiles each country could have

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Détente

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An easing of tensions between US and Soviets due to the SALT treaty

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Watergate

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Five men with relations to Nixon put recording devices (bugs) and camera equipment into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building on June 17, 1972

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Executive privilege

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The president’s right to keep information secret to protect national security
Nixon claims it with tapes

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Saturday night massacre

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Resignations and firings because of Nixon

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Spiro Agnew

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Nixon’s first Vice President who resigned because he failed to pay his taxes and he took bribes

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Gerald Ford

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Nixon’s second Vice President who became president once Nixon resigned

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Impeachment

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Formally accuse
House of Representatives announces articles of impeachment
Senate holds a trial
If guilty, removed from office

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Trade deficit

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A trade imbalance that happens when a country imports more goods than it exports

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Jimmy Carter

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A little know former governor from Georgia who became president in the 1976 election
I will never lie to you

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Camp David Accords

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Peace agreements between Egypt and Israel
Marked the first time that an Arab country had formed peaceful ties with Israel
Carter’s greatest accomplishment

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Apartheid

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The system of laws requiring racial segregation in South Africa

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Iran hostage crisis

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Iran college students held Americans from the US Embassy hostage for over a year
Cause: US housed Shah for medical treatment

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Ronald Reagan

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Beat Carter in the 1980 election

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EPA/Earth Day/Endangered Species Act

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Environmental Protection Agency: created to enforce environmental laws
Earth Day: activists raise environmental awareness on April 22, 1970
Endangered Species Act: 1966 federal law forbids hunting endangered species or destroying their environments

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Sunbelt

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States in the south and southwest that attracted many new people and businesses in the 1950s because of low tax rates, warm climate, and jobs

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1970s immigration

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Thousands of immigrants settled in the Sunbelt to take new jobs in growing high-tech industries, warm climate, and low tax rates
Changes from Europeans to South American, Mexican, and Asian

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Computer advances

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Microchip 1958
Computers did more and cost less; smaller and cheaper
Still too expensive for houses
Scientists used them as did the military
Steven Job and Stephen Wozniak
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1970’s pop culture

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George Lucas’s 1977 classic Star Wars
Big budget, special effect movies
Donna Summer in music

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Reaganomics

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Based on supply-side economics

The government could balance the budget by first cutting taxes

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Deficit

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The amount by which a government’s spending exceeds its tax revenues

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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1985 Soviet leader who began perestroika and glasnost

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INF

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Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
Called for elimination of all medium-range nuclear weapons from Europe
Cold War and US tensions were easing

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George Bush

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Republican 41st president in 1988
Persian gulf war
Americans with disabilities act
Supported War on Drugs

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Sassan Hussein

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Leader of Iraq 1990 who invaded Kuwait

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Persian Gulf War

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The US led 30 countries in a successful military effort to drive Iraq from Kuwait

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ADA

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Americans with disabilities act
Guaranteed people with disabilities equal access to places, transportation, and employment opportunities
Under bush

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Bill Clinton

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1991 Republican 42nd president
NAFTA
Great prosperity in second term
Adultery impeached but innocent
Surplus
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NAFTA

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North Anerican Free Trade Agreement
January 1, 1994
Helped establish free trade between US, Canada, an Mexico

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Surplus

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An excess of income or assets over expenditure or liabilities in a given time

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George W. Bush

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43rd president
George Bush's son Republican
Sent an education reform package and a plan for tax cuts to congress
No child left behind act
9/11
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No child left behind act

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2002 George w. bush
Required states to establish education standards
Sought to promote more schooling opportunities for families

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Recession

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A period in which overall economic output declines

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Terrorism

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The use of violent attacks by individuals or small groups with political goals

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Culture in the 1900s-200s

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Thinning ozone layer
Global warming
International space station
Mars pathfinder 
European Union
World Trade Organization 
Information Revolution
Internet
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9/11

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September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that destroys NYC’s World Trade Center towers, damaged the Pentagon, claimed almost 3000 lives
Harmed airline industry, contributing to US economic problems

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